they could be looking at another 7-10 years easily
Somehow I don’t think the current ruling class in Russia would see it as an issue
they could be looking at another 7-10 years easily
Somehow I don’t think the current ruling class in Russia would see it as an issue
Technically they’ve started with prisons. The “Tornado battalion” got released by Zelensky at the start of the war. They got locked up by Poroshenko due to being too batshit even for that nazi loving regime.
have received foreign subsidies
Remember when Russian police raided various orgs that are receiving foreign payments? Remember the stink the press raised over that?
Guess that’s different
Were they protesting sending cruise missiles, tanks and depleted uranium to nazis as well?
Even xenophobic nationalist rhetoric?
The frag is a “nationalist left”?
It’s also very problematic that a lot of the decision makers in EU aren’t really accountable to the people of any European nation.
As opposed to the national bourgeoisie governments which are also not accountable to their people?
Try telling that to even a run of the mill lib, not to mention a baltics nationalist. You’ll probably get hit with something like “It was fake independence and ebil russkies invaded anyway and installed a puppet regime!!!111”
Not to my knowledge. I actually mixed up: it was Estonia that made racecars. . Latvia made motorcycles.
Amazing, isn’t it? They used to make lasers and race cars in the soviet days, but threw it all away and decry it as horrible oppressive occupation, while buying kitty litter for fuel
Presumably because they’ll want those weapons for themselves
That falls under p. 2 and 3 of my comment.
That doesn’t mean much
Okay what the actual fuck. Masked men with what sure looks like assault rifles in the open? It’s not Alabama, it’s Moscow, this shit is turbo illegal. And they’re standing there, no problem?
So either:
the photo is staged and those aren’t real guns
they’re military
the state no longer even pretends to have control of the violence apparatus
Not sure which option unnerves me more.
Ah, my bad, didn’t see it. Thank you
Excellent bit at the end:
Secondly, the idea, which is gaining popularity in our country, that in order to break out of the vicious circle, the Western elite should be properly frightened by nuclear armageddon and then they will regain their will to negotiate, may have the exact opposite result. Today’s ruling elite is indeed qualitatively different from previous generations. First of all, it believes in a kind of dogma about the infallibility of the West, i.e. the certainty that any deviation from the ideological and political canon established after the Cold War will be a real catastrophe for the world. And since any compromise with Russia will be such a retreat, it is necessary to prevent it at all costs.
I have to agree. Look at the reaction to Putin’s comments regarding nuclear weapons. There is little fear. There’s only frothing at the mouth. At least the cold war era fucks had some idea of what “total war” would mean. And what nuclear war would mean
Huh, Lukyanov is on RT now? Funny, I recall first hearing of him when he worked for gazeta.ru, which was vaguely liberal (as opposed to rabid liberal novaya gazeta). He later quit and looks like there he is
Curious name. Thank you
What makes him think they have a choice?